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by marcell 15y ago
When people talk about Apple's 30% cut, and when competitors try to undercut Apple, I always wonder whether 30% is justified. It seems like a lot, but think about what Apple is bringing to the table: not just the infrastructure and staff be
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Google co-founder Larry Page: We won't leave china(cnn.com)
4 points by marcell 17y ago|1 comments
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by marcell 17y ago
Many people say that Erich Schmidt quit the Apple Board of Directors because of iPhone/Android competition, but this application suggests another reason. Google AdSense is great at monetizing high volume, low cost content. I work at a news
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by marcell 17y ago
The iPhone/gPhone/Android contest aside, this strikes me as a strange move on Google's part. Suppose you are Motorola. You just developed the "Droid" and partnered with Verizon for a well funded marketing campaign. You dumped Windows Mobile
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by marcell 17y ago
Technical recruiters make ridiculous amounts of money for moving people between companies. If this is successful it will be very lucrative for FogCreek.
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by marcell 17y ago
My guess: This is for the Apple Tablet. Either pay for subscriptions, or view ads. And, since it's Apple, I'm going to guess that all ads must go through an ad approval process.
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by marcell 17y ago
The dopamine loop has been well described in a number of articles, and many start ups and websites are taking advantage of it. I can feel it affecting the way I think, and I feel like it's damaging. I wish startups would try to address this
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by marcell 17y ago
I've noticed a pattern, that I'm calling the iPhone Asymptote Theorem. Basically, phone manufacturers are copying the iPhone experience best they can, and they're getting closer and closer to the iPhone, but they're never quite duplicating
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by marcell 17y ago
What program did they use for their metrics/graphs?
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by marcell 17y ago
This sounds interesting. On a very high level, a good solution to this would feel like window-shopping in a huge mall. Amazon.com is great if you know what you're looking for, (as GavinB said), but it's doesn't work for discovery. I can't m
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The information age is about to give way to the era of synthetic genetics(tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by marcell 17y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 18y ago
Sometimes, an article is boring enough and the writer is interesting enough that the only logical thing to comment on is the writer.
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by marcell 18y ago
>> "But the iPhone platform is also, in many ways, problematic. Programming native apps in Objective C is really hard work (or so the friends who’ve done it tell me). Palm greatly reduces the barriers to entry by making app developm
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by marcell 18y ago
"I found that nearly everything was fairly valued" Does this still hold in light of the stock market crash this last week?
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by marcell 18y ago
$1000? Are you kidding me? Some companies spend that much on AdWords in one DAY. And not to mention the lawsuits. $16 billion dollars of revenue can pay for a LOT of lawyers.
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by marcell 19y ago
And they'll do that with the mountains of cash they get from their thriving newspaper business...
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by marcell 19y ago
He should have done a 3rd experiment where the kids could choose between 3 hershey's + small snickers and 2 hershey's + large snickers.
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by marcell 19y ago
"They might create better algorithms(and I profesize that Yahoo’s algorithm is at least as good as Google’s), but more data beats better algorithms, and Google has way more data than Yahoo or Microsoft have. Social search has so much potent
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by marcell 19y ago
"Documentation is comprehensive, available, and always maintained" Really? I've found Django's documentation to be ok, but often outdated and non-comprehensive. The development team is still making changes that break backwards compatibility
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by marcell 19y ago
It doesn't look too bad. Seems like some sort of bug tracking or issue tracking software. The middle section displays bugs. The top section lets you select what bugs to display. The bottom section displays information about the bug. The bit
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by marcell 19y ago
Do they get bought at all? I doubt this one will get any bids at all.
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by marcell 19y ago
I'm looking to find office space for my startup. Here's what I'm looking for: - Around 200 sq ft (enough for 2 ppl) with door that closes - Quiet location, window preffered - Built in internet access - In the Bay Area, preferably near Palo
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Ask News.YC: Finding office space?
2 points by marcell 19y ago|3 comments
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by marcell 20y ago
I wouldn't say PG is the first to call it. Joel Spolsky wrote an article with same jist a few years back ( http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html), and I'm sure less known authors have been calling it before that. It's different wh
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by marcell 20y ago
There's a lesson here: don't depend on a single factor you can't control.
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by marcell 20y ago
http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1029869490&user_list_id=6 Does anyone remember The Spark's gender test? It's a specific case of this kind of test: http://community.sparknotes.com/gender/ (use bugmenot.com for login)
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by marcell 20y ago
Ages when they started what they're famous for: Mark Zuckerberg: 20 Max Levchin: 22 Paul Graham: 31 Steve Wozniak: 26 Mitcha Kapor: 32 Donald Knuth: 24
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Web 2.0 companies face a problem: too many users in the wrong countries(mercurynews.com)
8 points by marcell 20y ago|4 comments